Canon has officially announced the EOS C500, the professional 4K video camera output that it promised at the NAB trade show in April. A continuation of the concept of the C500, it can capture Raw 4K video footage and offers frame rates of up to 120fps in compressed 4K. It also captures 2K footage (2,048 x 1,080 pixels) at 12-bit, with 4:4:4 Y’CbCr chroma sub-sampling for high colour resolution. Canon EOS C500 camcorders is shooting footage in MXF format – a file type not well supported by most popular professional video editing software, like Cyberlink Power Director 10/11. In this page, we will talk about how to import Canon EOS C500 MXF files to CyberLink PowerDirector 11 for editing.

We search the supported file formats of CyberLink PowerDirector 11, and we easily find what kind of video files are supported by the program, but MXF is not in the list. So what to do if you just have a PowerDirector 11 installed and wanna edit Canon EOS C500 MXF in CyberLink PowerDirector 11 to create you own masterpieces?

In this case, Canon C500 MXF Converter from UFUSoft is what you need indeed. This Canon C500 MXF Converter is especially designed for MXF camcorders users, with which you can easily convert/transcode Canon C500 MXF to CyberLink PowerDirector 11 editable format like HD MPEG-2 at super fast speed due to the advanced CUDA technology support. What’s more, this professional Canon C500 MXF Converter comes with powerful video edit function, like trimming, cropping, adding watermark, etc. Thus, you can do some simple edit first according to your need.

Launch the best UFUSoft MXF Converter. Click the button “Add Video” to add Canon C500 MXF files to the best Canon C500 MXF Converter. (Note: While importing the MXF files, please make sure you have the original MXF file structure as it saved on your camcorder. If you only have some random MXF clips, your files will have image only without audio.) If it is necessary, you can double click the each file to have a preview.

Tip: If you wanna join Canon C500 MXF files for CyberLink PowerDirector 11, just select all files and click Merge.

Step 2: Select HD MPEG-2 as the output format for CyberLink PowerDirector 11 and set the output folder.

Click on the “Profile” and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas”, from the sublist, you can easily find the “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas >“MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg)” which is the compatible format for you to import Canon C500 MXF to CyberLink PowerDirector 11for further editing. Of course, you can also set the HD WMV, MOV, MP4, etc as the output format.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.

Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.

Tip: You can set the video size as 1920×1080; set bitrate from 1Mbps to 20Mbps; set frame rate as 24p or 30p to get best output video for CyberLink PowerDirector 11.

After the Canon EOS C500 MXF files to HD MPEG-2 for CyberLink PowerDirector 11 conversion, you will be able to get the output files for CyberLink PowerDirector 11 via clicking on “Open Folder” button effortlessly. Afterwards, you can import the Canon EOS C500 MXF to CyberLink PowerDirector 11 for further editing without any trouble.

Tips:
1. This Canon C500 MXF Converter not only can help you to convert MXF files to CyberLink PowerDirector, but it is also developed to bridge the gap between MXF recordings and various professional video editing applications like Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Windows Movie Maker, etc, as well as different multimedia devices like Toshiba Thrive, HP TouchPad, PS3, etc. To get more information about it, you can link to UFUSoft Canon C500 MXF Converter.